an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
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Fetlock joint
the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern
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any of the membranous air-filled extensions of the lungs of birds
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.the vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut in many embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles,…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Orthopaedics, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Orthopaedics, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle
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Stiffness or fixation of a joint; formation of a stiff joint.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: joint, cannon, bone, pastern.To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: joint, cannon, bone, pastern.A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: joint, cannon, bone, pastern.The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: joint, cannon, bone, pastern.A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: joint, cannon, bone, pastern.A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the jo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: joint, cannon, bone, pastern.greatly developed metatarsal or metacarpal bone in the shank or cannon part of the leg in hoofed mammals
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: joint, cannon, bone, pastern.The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: joint, cannon, bone, pastern.The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: joint, cannon, bone, pastern.A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of cli…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: joint, cannon, bone, pastern.Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasp…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: joint, cannon, bone, pastern.A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: joint, cannon, bone, pastern.Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: joint, cannon, bone, pastern.
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